China Glaze Metro Collection - Part 1: Uptown
Here is the first half! The collection is divided into two parts - Uptown and Downtown. Today I will show you swatches of Uptown collection, my favourite :)
City Siren - beautiful cool tone red creme. One coat was almost enough for a full coverage and it's soo shiny! It applied very nicely and dried reasonably fast. This is a very nice shade of red I must say.
Brownstone - reddish brown creme colour. Again the formula was very nice, smoth and shiny just like the rest of the collection and it dried fast and was nicely pigmented. I needed two coats as usual but one had very good coverage.
Urban Night - rich eggplant purple creme colour. Really nice and deep shade with blue-ish undertones. Formula is smooth, pigmented and shiny.
CG In The City - fine silver, purple and orange glitter particles. The first coat dried quite fast but was a bit grity. The second and third were all right and were enough for the coverage you can see in the pictures. The polish dries fast but leaves a bit of a matte and gritty finish. With one layer of top coat it will be nice and smooth :) It's a nice layering polish as you'll se below in the pictures. The removing was a bit difficult because it's a glitter polish but I just left soaked cotton buds on my nails for few minutes and it helped a lot. I don't bother with wrapping my fingers with foil, that's too much hassle.
In the direct sunlight
The first half of the collection impressed me a lot with the great formula of the polishes. All the five creme shades applied smoothly and were really nicely pigmented. I haven't done the 'wearing' test yet but I have good experience with CHG polishes. I will report on this issue later.
So far it's a great Fall collection and it's already available in e-shops. I'm really looking forward to try the second half - Downtown Collection. Stay tuned cos it's coming soon!
*These products were sent to me by a PR company for a review and I expressed my honest opinions.